So let's now start our calendar creating it from scratch.…I'm going to begin with a new document.…Cmd or Ctrl+ N, and I want the number of pages to be 12.…I do not want them to be facing pages.…Page size I'm going to use is A5.…You may prefer to use Letter Half, depending on where you are in the world.…And I want to generate these as landscape pages to begin with,…although they are going to be rotated ultimately to portrait pages.…Essentially, we're going to be trying to fool InDesign…so that we end up doing less manual work.…

And I want the margins to be an even 15 millimeters.…On all four sides and a bleed of three millimeters.…Now I'm going to come to my Scripts panel and open Calendar Wizard.…Specify my start month,…end month. Start on Monday.…Include non-month days. Do not add an extra text layer.…

I want to generate this calendar in the current document.…Color space will be CMYK.…Everything else is good and ready to go.…So we see we now have 23 pages in total. It's added pages for us,…leaving us with a bunch of blanks which is good, because we need those blanks.…

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10/11/2013

Learn how to design a calendar that's both functional and inspirational. This course begins by taking a historical look at the different types of calendars. Next, author Nigel French takes you through three different projects (a wall calendar, a circular calendar, and a compact one), using both Adobe InDesign and Illustrator.